Bingo. People here tend to be very extreme in their beliefs and they vastly over generalized their niche interests.
The vast majority of people out there don’t know what Linux is nor will they be ‘liberated’ by it.
But making small talk can also backfire. The idea that you will just chat people up and all will be well with the world is naive. A lot of people only find community and belonging through creation oppositional identity (us vs them). Frankly I have had to leave many communities over the years because the ‘community’ had warped into that mentality of ‘those people not like us are bad, and we are the good guys’ nonsense, usually because it got infused with political bullshit by insecure weirdos who need to see everything through a political struggle.
Bingo. People here tend to be very extreme in their beliefs and they vastly over generalized their niche interests.
The vast majority of people out there don’t know what Linux is nor will they be ‘liberated’ by it.
But making small talk can also backfire. The idea that you will just chat people up and all will be well with the world is naive. A lot of people only find community and belonging through creation oppositional identity (us vs them). Frankly I have had to leave many communities over the years because the ‘community’ had warped into that mentality of ‘those people not like us are bad, and we are the good guys’ nonsense, usually because it got infused with political bullshit by insecure weirdos who need to see everything through a political struggle.